A P2W event hits Brawl Stars for the first time ever

The official social account of Brawl Stars surprised the community with an unusual announcement. A new stream was coming, but it wasn't promoted as a Brawl Talk. A mysterious P2W event was revealed for Brawl Stars!

Many players were somewhat concerned about what this P2W stands for. Sure, no game developer would talk so openly about P2W aspects coming to their game. Some hoped it could be a Brawl Stars stream about the next season.

Such intrigue made the P2W event announcement even more interesting!

You can watch the official trailer of the P2W Brawl Stars event right here, as it's embedded below. 

The official announcement was short and informative. P2W in Brawl Stars stands for play-to-win. It's a special event with endless free rewards. All you need to do is to play Brawl Stars, reach specific milestones, and claim your prizes: which are mainly lots of free Starr Drops.

The event continues for 10 days, up to April 24. Each two days, the game invites players for special mini events, like double XP and daily Starr Drops.

For this event, you should accumulate takedowns in any Brawl Stars game mode. Play the game and participate in this community hunt for prizes.

The milestones during the P2W event are not individual. As a community, we should all work together. Each milestone is 1 billion takedowns accumulated by all Brawl Stars players. Something similar happened during the Dead Game event.

For the first billion of takedowns, everyone in the game receives 5 Starr Drops for free. Then, the more you play, the better the rewards become. All the prizes are shown in the image below.

The ultimate prize is the Ultra Trophy Box — with the best drops possible. Usually, you can get it from the updated Brawl Stars Trophy System.

If the community unlocks a milestone, a respective rewards appears in the shop. It is a good idea to check the Brawl Shop regularly and claim your prizes. Only the Ultra Box will be delivered in the end of the P2W event — after April 24.

If you enjoy Chroma skins in Brawl Pass seasons and more rewards of the Plus tears, then don't hesitate to participate in some special content creation.

The Brawl Stars P2W video starts with a meeting in the game's office. The boss, who is definitely not the Brawl Stars CEO, demanded more money from the game. The team offered a P2W event, but they did not clarify that it's not pay-to-win.

Not only was the boss confused, but the community also got filled with many speculations. The first thought about P2W being about pay-to-win just couldn’t be correct! Even if a mobile game has these mechanics, they are never openly announced. Doing a special event around them sounds weird.

Knowing the style of Brawl Stars, people assumed that P2W is something tricky and exciting. This could be a theme of the next Brawl Pass — like Dark Sands in March and Super Brawl in April. Another opinion was to have a new collaboration event, like something super wonderful with a prominent person from the community.

High expectations wasn't covered with the actual announcement. However, free Brawl Stars rewards should make the community happy.

Excitement is never over in Brawl Stars! Brawl Pass seasons replace each other non-stop, and each brings an interesting theme and great skins to battle for. The game regularly has collaboration events: like Toy Story with free Buzz Lightyear available for everyone or Brawl Stars UNO, a special game mode that involves playing unique cards.

Also, pro players fill the esports dimension with intense competition. We are in the middle of the Brawl Stars Championship 2025, and the newest in-person tournament is coming in May: the Brawl Cup 2025.

We are always open for even more great Brawl Stars events, and P2W is one of them.

The final Monthly Finals tournament of Split 1 is at the end of April in all the main regions. For all Brawl Stars news and updates, stick around on esports.gg!